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if there are 2 people in a room and each one shakes hands once with every other person in the room, how many hand shakes are there?... answer( 1 handshake) pretty easy isn't it? if there are 3 people in a room and everyone shakes hands with everyone else, how many hand shakes are there? answer( three handshakes) now how many handshakes will there be for 5 people in a room? its your time to shyne...
In a room there are N number of people if everyone shakes hands how many handshakes are made?
Depends what you mean, if you mean if everyone shakes hands just once then N-1 handshakes are made. If you mean if everyone shakes hands with everyone else then the answer is (N-1)+(N-2)+....+2+1 (we dont include N as they're not going to shake their own hand, obviously) written as Σn-1i=1 i, this is a arithmetic progression and so the total number of handshakes will be equal to (1+(n-1))(n-1)/2
How many shakes if there are four people?
4*3/2 = 6 handshakes.
There are 10 people they all shake hands how many hand shakes are there?
45 handshakes
Five people are in a room If everyone shakes hands with everyone else once how many handshakes will there be in all?
If it doesn't matter who starts it, then there are 60 separate hand-shakes.If it makes a difference who starts the greeting, then there are 120 different cases.
